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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:45 pm

Title: Famous/Funny Quotes
Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:45 pm
Yeah, quotes are cool. Here are some that I found, feel free to share yours -
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:46 pm
 Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

—Ambrose Redmoon
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:46 pm
6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

—Gandhi
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:47 pm
7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

—Lin-Chi
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:47 pm
8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

—A. A. Milne
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:48 pm
9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

—Abraham Maslow
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:49 pm
10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

—Aristotle
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:50 pm
11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

—Baltasar Gracian
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:50 pm
12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

—Basho
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:51 pm
13. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

—Lao-Tze
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Post by: jfots8620 on January 17, 2013, 09:51 pm
great
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:52 pm
14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:52 pm
15. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

—John Ruskin
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:53 pm
great

Let's try to limit the posts in this thread to quotes or the discussion of quotes.

Thanks!
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Post by: TinyDot on January 17, 2013, 09:54 pm
TOYNBEE IDEA
IN MOViE `2001
RESURRECT DEAD
ON PLANET JUPITER.
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:54 pm
16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

—Marcel Proust
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:55 pm
17. Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching

—Unknown Author
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:57 pm
18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

—Virgil Garnett Thomson
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 09:59 pm
19. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

—Will Rogers
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:00 pm
20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

—Zig Ziglar
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Post by: MaidMandy on January 17, 2013, 10:02 pm
"It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am"

~ Muhammed Ali
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:05 pm
21. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

—John Wilmot
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:06 pm
23. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

—Oscar Wilde
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Post by: FramedAgain2222 on January 17, 2013, 10:07 pm
Not originally from them but commonly accepted:
Lady Astor to Churchill: "If you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."
Churchill's retort: "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it!"
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:07 pm
24. I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.

—New York City detective
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:08 pm
26. Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

—Kurt Vonnegut
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:08 pm
25. When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

—Norm Crosby
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:09 pm
27. Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

—Carl Sagan
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:10 pm
28. My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

—Jean Rostand
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:11 pm
29. Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

—Lily Tomlin
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:12 pm
30. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

—Richard Lewis
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:13 pm
31. We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

—Robert Wilensky
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:14 pm
32. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

—Scott Adams
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:14 pm
33. If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

—Anon
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:15 pm
34. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.

—Clarence Darrow
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:16 pm
35. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

—Cullen Hightower
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:16 pm
36. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

—Cyril Connolly
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:17 pm
36. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

—Cyril Connolly
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:18 pm
37. There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

—Dick Cavett
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:19 pm
38. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

—H. L. Mencken
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Post by: CocaineFlakes on January 17, 2013, 10:19 pm
Now
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:20 pm
39. I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

—Victor Hugo
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:21 pm
40. I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

—Woody Allen
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Post by: Skeezer on January 17, 2013, 10:23 pm
Well that's enough wisdom and humor for one day. Look forward to seeing other insightful quotes!
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Post by: bobbyschmobby on January 17, 2013, 10:34 pm
He who stands on toilet is high on pot
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Post by: Sarc on January 18, 2013, 08:58 am
Marriage is a lifelong battle...except we men aren't given any weapons. - scrubs, yesterday. (sounded funnier when he said it)
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Post by: Immortally on February 03, 2013, 07:16 pm
true

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
—    Sigmund Freud
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Post by: BugsBeBoss on February 03, 2013, 07:47 pm
Insert pretty much anything said in Fear and Loathing ---->" "
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Post by: dex on February 06, 2013, 04:03 pm
Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?
-Mitch Hedberg
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Post by: bolbiggans on February 06, 2013, 04:30 pm
"How fortunate for our governments that the people they administer don't think"
Adolf Hitler.

It's true for the big majority of people